Sharon Chanon Velazquez, one of six teenagers in the state of Massachusetts that were charged with bully Phoebe Prince, a 15 year old Irish immigrant says she isn't a "mean person" or a "bully". She was called names such as "Irish whore" and "stupid slut". She was attacked because she had a romantic relationship with a guy by the name of Austin Renaud.
Cases like this disgust me. Teenagers are especially bad when it comes to situations like this. They are not brought up by their parents to have respect for people and they are not properly supervised at school. Males learn from watching their fathers and male pastors that discriminating against homosexuals is ok, and females learn from their mothers and other females in their life that being petty and learning how to say really hurtful things to other women(men don't respond the same way to being called a slut) is a way to get back at them. The responsibility for cases like this in many cases falls on the parents and the community of the bullies that allows them to get away with such behavior. Society as a whole must grow up. Discrimination and immoral behavior must be called out every time it happens.
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